News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: In an order issued on Aug. 12, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon found that the State of Oregon has fulfilled the terms of a settlement agreement with the Justice Department and people with disabilities in a landmark case challenging the state’s provision of employment services for people with disabilities in segregated settings. The case, Lane v. Brown/United States v. Oregon, was dismissed as a result.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A 28-count indictment was unsealed today, charging Terrance John “TJ" Cox, 59, of Fresno, with 15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering, one count of financial institution fraud, and one count of campaign contribution fraud, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: Moustapha Diakhate, 46, of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 42 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fraudulent receiving more than $4 million in COVID-19 relief funds guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: Sean Guerrant Led the Street Gang Responsible for Two Murders.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Julius Johnson, 44, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Aug. 16, 2022 - Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (the parks) are proposing a fee increase at 14 front country campgrounds: Atwell Mill, Cold Springs, Potwisha, Buckeye Flat, Dorst Creek, Lodgepole, Wolverton Stock campsites, Azalea, Sunset, Crystal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that OSCAR VALDEZ-GARCIA, a/k/a “Pony," an assassin for La Organización de Narcotraficantes Unidos (“La ONU"), was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman to 40 years in prison. VALDEZ-GARCIA previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Armando Segovia, 32, of Gallup, New Mexico, was sentenced on Aug. 12 to five years and three months in prison for abusive sexual contact of a minor in Indian Country. Segovia pleaded guilty on April 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 27-year-old Honduran national who illegally resided in the Houston area has been ordered to prison for 29 years, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: LaHood: Democrats’ Bill Raises Costs and Taxes on American Families, Kills Jobs and Cures.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Valentine, Nebraska, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Abusive Sexual Contact, and Coercion and Enticement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced David Torres-Velez (48, Davenport) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Torres-Velez had pleaded guilty on April 20, 2022.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: Murphy: Democrats Are Robbing From Medicare to Fund Green New Deal Policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - The president of a local union representing Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for engaging in a fraud scheme to defraud the union by misappropriating $29,050 in union funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: Defendants Include a Detective with the Nassau County Police Department Charged with Obstruction of Justice and Lying to the FBI.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page notice on Aug. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A correctional officer at the Salem County Correctional Facility today admitted accepting a bribe in exchange for agreeing to smuggle a telephone into the jail for a prisoner, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Moss Point man was sentenced to 211 months in federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
